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first English edition, engrvaed additional pictorial title and 46 full-page emblems, all inlaid, lacking final blank, [Wing H3349], excudit J[ames]. C[ottrell]. sumptibus Roberti Pawlet, 1677 bound with Hugo (Hermannus) Pia Desideria: or, Divine Addresses, translated by Edmund Arwaker, second edition, 46 engraved full-page emblematic illustrations, advertisement f. at end, lacking additional pictorial title, title laid down, a few marginal repairs, some soiling and spotting, [Wing H3351], small 8vo, J.L. for Henry Bonwicke , 1690, together 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary calf, spine chipped and repaired, corners worn, rubbed § Ripa (Cesare) Iconologia: or Moral Emblems, engraved additional pictorial title and 381 circular emblems on 81 sheets, sheet 57 trimmed at outer margin, just touching emblems, a few sheets foxed, occasional spotting, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked in modern calf, corners repaired, rubbed and scuffed, [cf. Praz p.472-475], scarce, Benjamin Motte, 1709 § Saavedra Fajardo (Diego de) The Royal Politician, 2 vol., translated by James Astry, engraved portrait frontispieces and 103 emblems, vol.2 sig.K misbound, some light browning, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, 1 cover detached, other on the way, chipped, rubbed, [Wing S211; Praz, p 485], for Matt. Gillyflower, 1700; and 4 other 18th- or 19th-century Emblem books, including an Aesop, v.s. (8)